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Administration Notes

Documentation

• http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/

Updating Gitlab

Notes

All sudo -u git -H git commands must be run as git user:

To run something like sudo -u git -H git checkout v2.7.2.

You need to first sudo su - git and then after successfully logging in with the git users identity and environment run git checkout v2.7.2.

References

• http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/update/README.html
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/doc/update
• https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/tree/master/install/centos

Commands

Restart Gitlab

cd /home/git/gitlab

sudo service gitlab restart

Clean up assets and cache

cd /home/git/gitlab

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:clean assets:precompile cache:clear RAILS_ENV=production